Around the bright star Fomalhaut, astronomers spotted glowing clouds of debris left behind by colossal collisions between large space rocks. One of these clouds was even mistaken for a planet before ...

China was forced to postpone the return of three astronauts from its Tiangong space station following a suspected collision with space debris that appears to have struck the spacecraft they were ...

Low Earth orbit, where most satellites operate, has become a whirlwind of metal shards and dead, tumbling debris. Anyone with hardware or human crew in orbit knows the drill. Orbital collision ...

As orbits become more crowded and littered with debris, the US operator is having to move its devices to dodge damage.

Two enormous space rocks have slammed together in a nearby planetary system, and for the first time astronomers have watched the dusty aftermath unfold almost in real time. The violent impact, ...